Globally, a gap between the demand for project management skills and the availability of talent continues to persist. This opens up a host of new job opportunities in project management-oriented employment (PMOE) for project professionals and all change-makers – those who, regardless of their role, are inspired and equipped to drive change.
This PMI report is a ten-year outlook of project management-oriented employment (PMOE). To understand the growth of project management as a profession and skill, we analyzed industries that rely heavily on project management skills. In the report, these industries are referred to as “projectized industries” and include manufacturing and construction; finance and insurance; information and publishing; management and professional services; oil and gas; and utilities.
Using available data, this talent group report projects the need for talent and the size of the talent shortage for PMOE. A methodology was also developed to estimate the global economic impact of such a talent gap.